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[Larry deZeng]

Göran - "proletariat" in the context of mass, crowd, group, body, horde, multitude, army, pack - no political connotations intended.
(graphic representation)
L.

[ChrisS]

We 'proles' know our place.

[ChristianK]

Come on Chris, is this the spirit? What would have happened if Lenin had thought this way?

Just joking, I am sure Larry did not mean any harm.

[Jim P.]

I thought Larry's comment was funny.

[Mikael Olrog]

Wonder what the Lw-photo proletariat revolution would look like...

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by F19Gladiator

… "the "enthusiast" proletariat" … I find it an unnecessary derogative statement about people! Ok, I'm probably part of that then … Do we have some kind of "Nobles" around as well then?
Göran Larsson

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern Capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour. By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live.

(K. Marx & F. Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party — Note by Engels to the English edition of 1888)

I always knew my Politics A-Level would come in handy some day!

[Larry deZeng]

N.Beale wrote in part:

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern Capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour. By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live.

Also known in present times as the affluent elite and the unwashed masses.

L.

[ChrisS]

Damn it, I miss it on both counts...well some days the mandatory middle-class morning shower goes tits up

[Larry deZeng]

The bourgeoisie employ selectees from the middle class to fly the zoom-zooms they own that are serviced and maintained by hirelings from the proletariat.